Territory



(No Model.)

A, B; TUTTON.

SYRINGE ATTACHMENT FOR BOTTLES.

No. 340,927. PatentedApnZ'l, 1886.

INVENTOR /2155;

wmmssns ATTORNEYS.

M PEYERS. Phaio-Lilhogmpher. Washinglofl- IL u.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEFI E.

ANAXIMANDEB B. TUTTON, OF SIOUX FALLS, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

SYRINGE ATTACHMENT FOR BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,927, dated April 2'7, 1886.

Application filed February 15, 1886. Serial No. 192,035. (No mo el.)

I 0 all whom it may concern/.

Be it known that I, ANAXIMANDER B. TUT- TON, of Sioux Falls, in the county of Minnehaha, Dakota Territory, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Syringe Attach ments for Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 isa sectional view of the device when inverted ready for use, and Fig. 2 is asimilar View of the device when not in use.

My invention relates to an improvement in syringe attachments to prescription or other bottles for applying medicinal solutions or other liquids directly to mucous canals of the human or animal body, and which also acts to close the bottle as a cork.

The object of my invention is to furnish a device which may be attached to ordinary bottles or vials of any size, and when so attached to a bottle or vial containing liquid for injection, to furnish a syringe for the purpose above named, and also a stopper for the bottle. In this device, when it is not in use, the soft-rubber elastic cap, represented by A in Fig. 2, is pulled downward upon the neck of the bottle until the top of the cap rests upon the top of the bot-tle, the tube and nozzle being sheathed within the attached bottle or vial, and are thus protected from an accumulation of dirt or foreign matter, are protected from breakage, and provide the most compact form for carrying or packing, as the whole apparatus, including the bottle or vial, occupies only the space occupied by the bottle or vial.

In the drawings, A represents an elastic soft-rubber socket or cap, which is adapted to be distended over the neck of any vialor bottle, and to he slipped down upon the neck until the top of the cap A rests upon the lips or top of the vial or bottle, as in Fig. 2; or the cap A may be slipped up upon the neck of the vial or bottle, as in Fig. 1, until the chamber of the cap becomes an extension of the neck of the vial or bottle in the shape of an expansible bulb, thus making the vial orbottle and the cap conjointly to possess greater or less containing capacity, according as the cap is pulled upward or slipped downward length of the bottle, but, as shown, is shorter. The outer end of this tube terminates as a syringe-tube, and the inner end is provided with an enlargement to engage with or be grasped by the hole in the cap when this tube is extended for use, as in Fig. l.

The hole in the cap, which is closed by b, is for the purpose ofoadmitting air into the bottle and of permitting the escape of condensed air from the inside of the bottle. The flexible tube a is for the purpose of holding, as a sheath, the nozzle end of tube 13, and a being closed and button-shaped or plugshaped at its top end. It is also for the purpose of closing the hole in the cap through which B passes when E is pushed back into the bottle.

To operate the device, the tube or sheath a carrying tube B, is pulled out of the bottle until the enlarged end of B so completely fills the hole in the cap A that leakage shall be prevented. a is then removed from B. Cap A is slipped upward on the neck of the bottle in extension from the bottle until cap A forms a chamber beyond the mouth of the bottle, as in Fig. 1. The hole in cap A which is closed by plug 1) remaining closed, the nozzle or syringe-tube is inserted into,whatever canal or directed toward whatever object is to be operated upon, and the tube B is held in position by one hand. With the other hand invert the bottle or tip its top downward, and the bottle being in line with tube B, push the bottle toward tube 13, as shown by the arrows, holding at the same time tube B immovable. This causes the top of cap A and the butt-end of tube B to enter between the walls of cap A, thus acting as a plunger to displace the liquid and to compress the air within the bottle, which compressed air reacting causes the liquid to be ejected through tube B in a quantity about equal to the amount of displacement caused by the compression. To make the flow recurrent, alternately pull ICO and push upon the bottle, at the same time holding the tube B immovable.

After use, sheath tube B into stopper-tube a and push both into the bottle, and button cap a into the hole of cap A, as in Fig. 2, thus closing the hole in cap A, through which tube B passes. The sheathing of tube B back into the bottle and closing the hole in cap A, through which it passes will, if the bottle be nearly full, compress the air in the bottle, which compressed air expanding distends the cap A. This compressed air is released and the distension relieved by momentarily withdrawing plug 5, which being afterward buttoned back into the hole in cap A the bottle is closed.

My device is useful and highly beneficial, for that the air in the bottle when the device is in use is always in that part of the bottle is impossible to inject air.

which is more elevated than the nozzle (1. It

On account of untraversed space, leakage, and the like, the injection of air in some undue quantity always attends the use of pistonand-bulb syringes; and the injection of air into mucous canals of the human or animal body in the treatment of diseased membranes is hurtful and injurious by forcibly and unnecessarily distending those tender parts. Besides, air thus injected by its reaction unduly expelsvfrom the canal the injection liquid before it has properly medicated the diseased spots, thus in some degree defeating the very object sought by the injection act.

The collapsing of the cap A into itself and into the throat of the bottle constitutes a plunger with the advantage of sufficient force and without the disadvantage of the friction incident to the operation of a piston.

The injection having been administered into the male urethra with my device, the instrument may be held in place as long as desirable, and the weight of the column of liquid in the bottle and in the attachment will gently force a constant application of the liquid upon the walls of the urethra, thus really bathing the diseased parts with the medicated or other liquid. The tube B being attached to a flexible material-to-wit, to the cap A-there is little liability to change it angularly or to turn its point to one side or the other against the inflamed sides of the urethra.

In defining my invention with respect'to my previous patent, No. 330,755, I would state that the rubber cap in that case is not capable of extension to form a syringe-bulb. I would also state that Iam aware that a compressible bulb has been applied to bottle-necks, which bulbs had a valve-seat and valve which rested upon the top of the bottle-mouth. It is obvious, however, that such valve-seat and valve would preclude the folding of the elastic bulb and the sheathing of the nozzle of the bulb into the neck of the bottle when not in use, and I lay no claim to such valvular construction.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. A compressible bulb or cap, A, provided with a nozzle and an opening for the neck of a bottle, and adapted to be alternately expanded and collapsed, to form a syringe attachment or be folded back over the neck of the bottle to form a stopper for the same, substantially as shown and described.

2. A compressible bulb or cap, A, provided with a nozzle and a separate stopper, b, and an opening for the neck of the bottle, and adapted to be alternately expanded and collapsed to form a syringe attachment or be folded back over the neck of the bottle to form a stopper, substantially as shown and described.

ANAXIMANDER B. TUTTON.

Witnesses:

BERSVEN HAVDAHL, WILLIs H. Boo'ra. 

